LVN- Central Line Via CADD Pump

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Specializes in Licensed Vocational Nurse.

Hello!

Our facility currently has a patient with a Central Line with CADD pump. If the pump is beeping, we are allowed to trouble shoot the pump. Are LVN's allowed to restart to the medication by pressing the "start" button after trouble shooting or would this be considered infusing the medication ? I know LVN's are NOT allowed to start medications through a central line. Thank in advance for any help ?

california regulations...

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

I’m not in CA and don’t work with LPNs... but that sounds just silly. My common sense would consider that a continuation/restart vs an initiation of the med

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Specializes in New Critical care NP, Critical care, Med-surg, LTC.

I'm not an expert on LVN scope of practice, my initial thought is that restarting should be fine. My assumption would be they cannot initiate a medication because if a patient were to have an adverse reaction, it's not within their scope to assess and respond. But, I'm not in your state, nor did we have any hospital based LVNs here anymore so I could be misinformed.

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